Word: stagings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...play which these persons witnessed with enthusiasm was plainly designed less as a model of intelligent drama than as a means of bringing their old friend before the footlights in praiseworthy poses. On the stage Jack Dempsey is an honest prize-fighter with a crooked manager; he loves a brunette who, because her brother is in the power of a bad gambler, agrees for his sake to put catnip in the champion's water-bottle so that the gambler may be assured in advance who will win the big fight. The audience, on the other hand, knows that...
...Names. Express, passenger and freight trains have names; Pullman cars have names; and B. &O. engines.* The Pennsylvania Railroad, building cars: at its Altoona, Pa., shops, decided to name 45 new theatrical scenery cars after famed stage characters (real and literary), 25 new horse express cars after famed racetracks...
...stage show somewhat relieves the atmosphere with a well ordered and well served bill of fare. An Oriental dance suffices to turn the mind away from the terrors of the day, while a guitar duet with the typical songs in the shade, may satisfy the weltschmerz of a freshman out of sorts...
...Great Power. This dreadful piece contains all ordinary and extraordinary horrors of uninspired writing for the stage...
...TRIAL OF MARY DUGAN−Now the vast stage of the Century Theatre is the courtroom in which a chorine tells her troubles (TIME...